1899] Brainerd,—Saniculas of Vermont 7 
Bot. Cab. x. no. 952. G. pubescens, R. Bi., var. minor, Sims, Bot. 
Mag. lii. t. 2540. G. Menzsiesii, Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 
504, in part (as to Tadousac, Crawford, and New York plants), not 
Lind]. Peramium Menziesii, Morong in Britt. and Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 
475, in part, not Morong Mem. Torr. Cl. v. 124. — In upland woods, 
rarely in bogs or deep moss, Salmonier River and Whitbourne, New- 
foundland (Rodinson E Schrenk) and Tadousac, Quebec ( G. Z. Good- 
ale) to Lake Nipissing, Ontario ( G. S. Miller, 7r.) , south to Hartford, 
Connecticut (Æ. S. Clark), Catskill Mts., New York (Geo. Thurber) 
and Seneca Co., New York (Asa Gray). The commonest species in 
northern New England, flowering in August. 
*** Spike r-sided rather densely flowered: lip scarcely saccate, elongated, with the 
margin involute. 
G. Menziesu, Lindl. Stem rather stout, 3.5 dm. high (sometimes 
4.5 dm.), often producing stout stolons: leaves firm, .5 to 1 dm. long, 
plain green, often with broad, white midribs, or rarely mottled with dark 
and light green: spike, during anthesis, about 1 dm. long (occasion- 
ally 1.5 dm.) : perianth 8 or 9 mm. long: anther ovate, long-acumi- 
nate: slender beak longer than the body of the stigma. — Gen. et 
Sp. Orch. 492; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. ii. 136; Wats. & Coult. in 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 504, in part. Spiranthes decipiens, Hook. Fl. Bor.- 
Am. ii. 203, t. 204. Orchiodes Menziesii, O. K. Rev. Gen. ii. 675. 
Peramium Menziesit, Morong, Mem. Torr. Cl. v. 124, and in Britt. & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 475, in part. — In dry woods, flowering in August, 
Mt. Albert, Gaspé Co., Quebec (J. A. Allen) ; Squaw Cap Mt., Resti- 
gouche, New Brunswick (G. U. Z/ay) ; Frenchville, Aroostook Co., 
Maine (Kaze Furbish); Allaguash, Aroostook Co., Maine (M. Z. 
Fernald) ; on the Great Lakes, from Lake Huron westward (Goldie, 
Robbins, et al.) ; Rocky Mountains, from British Columbia to Arizona ; 
also California and northward. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1.— Goodyera Menziesii : fig. 1, flower; fig. 2, lip; 
hg. 3, column from side; fig. 4, column from front; fig. 5, column from back. 
G. tesselata : fig. 6, flower; fig. 7, lip; fig. 8, column from front; fig. 9, column from 
side. G. repens: fig. 10, flower; fig. 11, lip; fig. 12, stigma from front; fig. 13, 
column from back; fig. 14, column from side. 
THE SANICULAS OF WESTERN VERMONT. 
EzRA BRAINERD. 
THE four species of Sanicula, as set forth by Mr. Bicknell in the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Bot. Club for August, 1895, occur not infre- 
quently in western Vermont. A few notes are herewith presented, the re- 
sult of frequent observation of the growing plants during the past summer. 
